Who Is It For?

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WRONGED

"RONGD"

-TREATED UNFAIRLY OR UNJUSTLY-I want to bring those who have wronged me to justice

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HUDDLE

"HAHD-L"-to gather or crowd together in a close mass-to crouch, curl up, or draw oneself together. (acurrucado

*We huddled up and the boy snapped the photo, then handed me the camera.*Yet the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free did not always find what they expected in America.

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YEARNING

[YUR-ning]

-deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness-to have an earnest or strong desire; long-to feel tenderness; be moved or attracted:

*They yearned over their delicate child.*to yearn for a quiet vacation.*a widower's yearning for his wife.

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LOOMED / LOOM

LOOM

- El Telar (To weave [wif] something on a loom)- to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form-to rise before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size-to assume form as an impending (inminente) event:

*The mountainous [MOUN-tn-nes] island loomed on the horizon.*Suddenly a police officer loomed in front of him.*A battle looms at the convention

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CHRISTEN

[KRIS-ah n]

-to give a name to at baptism

*They christened her Mary

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OVERTURN

[verb oh-ver-TURN; noun OH-ver-turn]- to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.- the state of being overturned.